Genius Meanings
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Dream Theater – The Shattered Fortress
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The fourth track on Dream Theater’s 2009 album Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, “The Shattered Fortress” is the last song in his “12-Step Suite
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Dream Theater – The Shattered Fortress Interpolations
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See all of “The Shattered Fortress” by Dream Theater’s interpolations
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Dream Theater – The Glass Prison
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The opening track of Dream Theater’s 2002 album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, “The Glass Prison” is the first song in his “12-Step Suite
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Ark (Metal Band) – Noose
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Walked Through The Crowd / My Head Hung Low / Their Sending An Innocent Soul / As The Angels Circle Dragon Hill / And Satan Sets His Stage / It's A Sacrifice For The People / An
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Dream Theater – The Twelve-Step Suite
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The Twelve-Step Suite is a series of compositions written by then-drummer of Dream Theater Mike Portnoy that addresses his struggles with alcoholism and the steps he has been
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Dream Theater – Repentance
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The fifth song on Dream Theater’s 2007 album Systematic Chaos. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, “Repentance” is the fourth song in his “12-Step Suite” that addresses his
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Dream Theater – The Root of All Evil
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The opening track of Dream Theater’s 2005 album Octavarium. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, “The Root of All Evil” is the third song in his “12-Step Suite” that addresses his
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Dream Theater – This Dying Soul
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The second track of Dream Theater’s 2003 album Train of Thought. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, “This Dying Soul” is the second song in his “12-Step Suite” that addresses
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Dream Theater – A Rite of Passage
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This is the only song on the Black Clouds & Silver Linings album that doesn’t concern personal experiences about disturbing or difficult moments in the lives of the band.
This
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Dream Theater – Wither
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The third track on Dream Theater’s 10th studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings.
Guitarist John Petrucci spoke on the song’s lyrical meaning:
In a way, Wither isn’t really
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Dream Theater – To Tame a Land
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He is the king of all the land / In the Kingdom of the sands / Of a time tomorrow / He rules the sandworms and the Fremen / In a land amongst the stars / Of an age tomorrow / He is
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Dream Theater – The Best of Times
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The fifth track on Dream Theater’s 10th studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings. Written by then-drummer Mike Portnoy, the lyrics revolve around his relationship with his
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Dream Theater – Take Your Fingers from My Hair
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[Intro] / Take your fingers from my hair / They have gotten us nowhere / We can't last another second / For we are two, too lost for open doors / Take your memories and your ways
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Dream Theater – A Nightmare to Remember
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The opening track on Dream Theater’s 10th studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The lyrics, written by guitarist John Petrucci, chronicle a near-death car accident that
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Dream Theater – Stargazer
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High noon / Oh I'd sell my soul for water / Nine years worth of breakin' my back / Theres no sun in the shadow of the wizard / See how he glides / Why he's lighter than air / Oh, I
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Dream Theater – The Count of Tuscany
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A story about John Petrucci went for an Adventure in Florence, Italy. The story recalled and started during Dream Theater 2002 tour where John Petrucci and his Guitar tech went for
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Dream Theater – Tenement Funster / Flick of the Wrist / Lily of the Valley
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This song is a cover of the “Tenement Funster”, “Flick of the Wrist and “Lily of the Valley” medley from the Sheer Heart Attack album by Queen.
https://youtu.be/_taatvaBIuM
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Epica – Semblance of Liberty
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[Instrumental] / [Verse 1: Mark Jansen] / Born to fight, and we're born to flee / Doomed to live on ecstasy / Born to lie, and we're born to cheat / Look in the mirror, who do you
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Kamelot (Ft. Björn “Speed” Strid) – The Great Pandemonium
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[Whispers] / War, war, war, war, war, war, war... / On a silent shore / I spoke to God / The sun is down / Assemble the great pandemonium / War! / [Verse 1] / One more down by the
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 2)
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Canto the Second / I. / Come, blue-eyed maid of heaven!—but thou, alas, / Didst never yet one mortal song inspire— / Goddess of Wisdom! here thy temple was, / And is, despite of
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Marcel Proust – Names of People (Chapter 1)
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CHAPTER ONE / NAMES OF PEOPLE: THE DUCHESSE DE GUERMANTES — SAINT-LOUP AT DONCIÈRES — MME. DE VILLEPARISIS AT HOME — MY GRANDMOTHER’S
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Lord Byron – Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Canto 4)
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Byron’s footnotes are given in the annotations in square brackets [].
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Montague Summers – The Vampire, His Kith And Kin - Chapter 2
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CHAPTER II / THE GENERATION OF THE VAMPIRE / IT may now be asked how a human being becomes or is transformed into a vampire, and it will be well here to tabulate the causes which
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Marcel Proust – Combray [Chapter 2]
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COMBRAY / Combray at a distance, from a twenty-mile radius, as we used to see it from the railway when we arrived there every
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Michel de Montaigne (Ft. Charles Cotton) – Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Chap. 2.12)
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Apology For Raimond Sebond / Learning is, indeed, a very great and a very material accomplishment; and those who despise it sufficiently discover their own want
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